Australian Education
Australia: Teachers’ union pushes through TAFE sell-out
By our reporters, March 12, 2010
Despite angry opposition from TAFE teachers, the NSW Teachers Federation yesterday imposed the state Labor government’s demands for longer hours and lower overall pay rates.
Gillard’s National Press Club speech
Australia: Labor’s war on public education
By Laura Tiernan, March 8, 2010
Speaking at the National Press Club on February 24, Education Minister Julia Gillard unveiled a further wave of attacks by the Rudd government on public education.
Australia: TAFE teachers challenge Labor’s education reforms, defying strike ban
By our reporters, February 12, 2010
More than 3,000 Technical and Further Education (TAFE) teachers attended a stop-work meeting yesterday—the largest in more than a decade—at Sydney Town Hall.
Australian teachers condemn Labor’s My School web site
By our correspondents, February 11, 2010
The World Socialist Web Site interviews school teachers about the Rudd government’s My School web site, which publicly ranks government and private schools across the country.
Australia: Labor’s My School web site launches new attack on public education
By Erika Zimmer, February 4, 2010
The Rudd government’s new My School web site, publicly ranking schools according to standardised tests, will accelerate the shift toward a market-based, fee-paying model of education.
Australia: Union prepares sell-out of TAFE teachers struggle
By our reporters, December 10, 2009
NSW TAFE teachers are continuing to oppose a new teaching award handed down by the Industrial Relations Commission on October 15. But the NSW Teachers Federation is seeking a deal with newly-installed...
Australia: Labor governments launch major assault on TAFE teachers
By Erika Zimmer, December 4, 2009
Technical and Further Education (TAFE) teachers in the state of New South Wales have been protesting a wave of attacks on their conditions that are being driven by the federal Labor government’s “...
Australian academics’strike at UNSW: a few observations from the ISSE
By Mathew Benn, September 19, 2009
Academics and general staff at the University of New South Wales went on strike last Wednesday as part of the National Tertiary Education Union’s “National Day of Action”. Members of the Interna...
Australia: University staff strike for “day of action”
By our reporters, September 17, 2009
Members of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) at 16 universities stopped work yesterday to fight increased workloads, a blow-out in class sizes, casualisation and other attacks on jobs and c...
Rudd’s Education Revolution “a disaster for universities”
By our reporters, September 17, 2009
Macquarie University’s National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) branch president Carolyn Kennett speaks with the World Socialist Web Site about the deepening assault on public tertiary education tha...
Gillard’s “Teach for Australia”: a corporate-backed assault on teaching
By Katrina Morrison and Laura Tiernan, September 14, 2009
Teach for Australia will parachute unqualified teachers into disadvantaged government schools. Part of the Rudd government’s “education revolution”, the initiative is modelled on Teach for Ameri...
Education deans oppose Teach for Australia
“Teachers need a depth of theoretical understanding”
By Laura Tiernan, September 14, 2009
Since the Rudd government’s Teach for Australia program was first publicly mooted at the start of 2008, it has been condemned by education deans at universities in Sydney and Melbourne.
